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How I finally came to terms with my sister’s death

6 June 2020

9:00 AM

6 June 2020

9:00 AM

The Consequences of Love Gavanndra Hodge

Michael Joseph, pp.320, 14.99

‘Grief is the price we pay for love,’ the Queen once wrote. This memoir is steeped in the pain of unpaid debt. ‘When you were nine, you had a pink coat that you loved so much you wore it all the time, even on the early morning flight to Tunisia,’ Gavanndra Hodge begins, talking to her younger sister Candy, who’s been dead for 30 years.

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